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Unregistered said "is critical to rightly understand what the Bible says about the ONENESS of the Spirit (Eph 4:3) which is the ONENESS of Body of Christ (1Cor 12:4-13, especially vs.13), again LITERAL interpretation. According to the Bible, the ONENESS of the Body of Christ is NOT Witness Lee’s teaching or anybody else’s teaching. Therefore, the only foundation of the believers in Christ, is the Spirit and the Word of God. All the believers in Christ should have NO other requirements other than the Spirit and the Word of God and should feel perfectly comfortable with ONLY the Spirit and the Word of God. To insist with other things besides the Spirit and the Word of God, is divisive and not according to the Bible"

Hi Unregistered, read your initial post with great interest, and took a while of consideration before I responded. This is not the time of Israel, but it is the time of the church. If I did the math correctly, 30 years of WL would put you at about 1985. Many of us, I suspect, who were "in the church" in years prior to 1985, have a longing for the "church life" that existed then. Meeting together as believers without taking another name, not under a pastoral system, praying, singing, speaking to one another, eating together at each other's houses, hearing messages from some who labored in the word, gospel meeting, love feasts, sharing verses, experiences, etc. We were meeting as the church and were glad of it. Slowly, Living Stream began heavily influencing every aspect. A good indicator was, at least where I was meeting, the book store used to carry many authors, then it went to W Née and WL, then WL only. At some point, the church in my locality, and probable everywhere had to declare "oneness with LSM", and every aspect of the "church life" was sold out to LSM. If you began in '85 or so, thing were in full speed LSM, and the sweetness of meeting simply as the church was gone.
I suspect many of us who experienced this have a hard time getting involved with Christian groups that exist today- have a hard time committing to such groups, because in the back of our minds, we remember the times when we met, the best we knew how, according to the scripture. The idea of the local church is not WL, the way of fellowship we had then was not WL's. BUT, WL's ministers was a big part of it, that ended up consuming and corrupting the simplicity and sweetness we had. Is is as if the church was robbed from us, similar to, the the carrying away of Israel to Babylon (little allegory there). How can we sing the Lords songs in a strange land?
I suspect, that if those who have control of the "local churches" were to declare tomorrow that they see the error of their ways, and go back to building the walls of Jerusalem---I mean return to a common bible, drop the LSM, let the saints, the word and the Spirit have free course, that most of us would return rejoicing.
Will that happen? Probably not, so in the mean time, the church (all the Christians, and the blessing of oneness) suffers due to lack of vision and practice.

Concerning oneness, there is more to it in what Paul wrote the saints in Ephesus- one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father, than just the word and the Spirit. I think you short change the church and the Word and the major importance of the Church in this age by dismissing the church as degraded. The proper local church is not a WL thing but God's habitation.